Baling-press.



C. A. WARREN.

BALING PRESS.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 15, ms.

Patented Nbv. 28, 1916:

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CLARENCE A. WARREN, OF LE RGY, MICHIGAN.

BALING-PRESS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed November 15, 1915. Serial No. 61,762.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, CLARENCE A. WARREN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Le Roy, in the county of Osceola and State of Michigan, have invented certainnew and useful Improvements in Baling Presses, of which the following is a specification. 7

My invention relates to improvements in presses for baling waste paper, rags, and other packages that are to be made up into bales for convenient shipment, and its objects are: first, to provide a convenient and easily worked baling press without the use of gear wheels, pawls and ratchets, and kindred surplus mechanism, and, second, to provide a baling press that may be easily and readily opened and closed and otherwise manipulated for entering and removing the article to be baled, and the bales after they have been properly pressed and bound. I attain these objects by the mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which Figure l is a perspective of the press in its normal position, with both doors closed; Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the press with the upper door opened to show the manner of hanging the press head on the actuating shaft, and Fig. 3 is a like view with both doors open showing the internal construction of the press.

Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

In the accompanying drawing 1 represents the sides of the press; 2 represents the upper door; 3 represents the lower door, and 9 represents the base of the press.

The upper door 2, and the lower door 3 are hinged together, as at 4, so the upper door may be opened from the top outward and downward, as indicated in Figs. 2 and 3, and the lower door is hinged to one side, 1, of the press, as at 10, 10 so it may be opened sidewise, as shown in Fig. 3.

12 represents a hasp by'means of which the lower door 3 may be secured in its closed position.

The sides 1 of the press are slotted, as indicated at 11 in Fig. 1 so the actuating shaft 5 may be readily raised and lowered therein. This shaft is revolubly secured to the girt 15 that supports the press head 16, by means of any available form of connecting cliewill be readily understood that any upward, or downward movement of the shaft 5 must carry the press head 16 with it.

My device for raising and lowering the shaft 5, and with it thehead 16, consists of ropes, or cables 7, 7, securely attached at one end to the plate 8, thence passing downward of circles of rope around the shaft to pro vide for the distance the shaft and head must be raised and lowered. I provide for revolving the shaft 5 by means of levers or rods, 6. One or two may be applied, as may seem necessary or desirable. It will be read ily understood that if the shaft 5 is made to revolve over toward the front of the press the action of the ropes thereon will draw the head 16 forcibly downward upon the mate rial or goods in the press to be baled, and if the revolving movement of the shaft is reversed the head 16 will be drawn upward away from the baled goods.

The upper end of the lever 6 is placed back of the girt 8 to avert the danger of the weight of the head 16 causing the shaft to revolve and allow the head to drop downward in inconvenient position when the goods are being placed in the press.

The back, 13, is made of plank that are secured to the top and base of the machine, permanently, in the usual manner of forming the sides, backs and ends of this class of presses.

That I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is

1. Incombination with the case, base, plate and pressure head of a baling press, a shaft revolubly mounted directly upon the Patented Nov. 28, 1916,

pressure head and extending outward bea lever connected With the shaft for revolving $1118 shaft to raise and lower the pressure hea 2. In combination with the case, base, plate and pressure head of a baling press, the sides of said case having slots therethrough, a shaft revolubly connected with the pressure head With its ends extending through the slots in the sides of the case, a rope at each side of the case having one end securely connected with the ends of the plate and the other ends securely connected With the base, the bodies of said ropes Wound several times around the ends of the shaft, means for preventing the shaft from slipping in the coils of the rope, and a lever for revolving the shaft to raise and lower the pressure head by the action of the shaft CLARENCE A. WARREN.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G. 

